[postgis-devel] [postgis-users] EOL page

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Thu Mar 29 13:43:45 PDT 2018


I don't know that it belongs smack on the front page necessarily....
is this really such a front-and-center piece of information that we
want to dedicate above-the-fold real estate to it?
P.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> Since I heard no complaints, I created a section on PostGIS front page "PostGIS version compatibility and EOL policy" with link to our compatibility matrix page.
>
> If anyone has any suggested changes, feel free to mention them and they'll probably be added.
>
> http://postgis.net/
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:26 PM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] [postgis-users] EOL page
>
> Some more visibility around initial release dates for various versions would help improve communications around EOL. I can kind of do the math and say that it's probably 3-4 years old, but it would be nice to have than solid in the matrix, that the 2.2.0 release was on date X.
> P.
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>> Come to think of it maybe that page is sufficient for our versioning
>> policy and we just need to make more prominent and grey out all versions EOL'd.
>>
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>> Not sure how to grey out cells in Wiki format, but for starters I put
>> in EOL in header and will link to website on home page.
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>> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On
>> Behalf Of Darafei "Kom?pa" Praliaskouski
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:49 PM
>> To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Cc: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] [postgis-users] EOL page
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>> Can we add more visibility to this page and gray out unsupported
>> configurations in matrix?
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostgreSQLPostGIS
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>> ??, 27 ???. 2018 ?. ? 19:34, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us>:
>>
>> Someone pointed out on IRC there is no easy way to determine when a
>> PostGIS version is EOL'd.  He was looking for us to patch 2.1 and I
>> said NO cause that's EOL'd.
>>
>> Anyway to make it clear, I was going to create an EOL on postgis.net
>> page similar to what
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
>>
>> In addition, just like PostgreSQL group  I'm going to mandate a future
>> EOL for those we still support.
>>
>> Anyone have issues with me setting up such a page and making such
>> godly decisions about future EOLS :)
>>
>> +1 if you are okay with it -1 if you are not.
>>
>> And of course I expect at least PSC folks to vote, others can vote too.
>> I'll jump as soon as I see 2 +1s from PSC and no -1s.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>>
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